ok well i got my china crank from southern buggies and got my motor all ready to install the bad boy and got a call today saying that the rod journals are 0.01 to big. brand new crank and i can't even use the damn thing. awesome QC from china haha. every time you tighten the rods they lock on the crank. couldn't get ahold of tim today i am sure he will take care of me but just thought i'd pass along my experience.

o this post no way downs southern bugs. just the damn china crank hah tim is a cool dood.

kyle

I have built several engines using these China cranks with no trouble yet..

Tolerence is the biggest problem with anything made in China. Here in the states we hold tolerences to .0001". In China they use a pubic hair from an old whore for Micrometers and call it a day. Thats there way of F@#&ing you. . Unfortuneatly the cost of anything made in the states is usally cost prohibited so we are forced buy the China stuff. Its judst the way it is.

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Kyle, do mean .001 off, or .010 off. Either way, that stinks. Although I have never seen one, I have heard of CB Cranks being off by .001 to .002 too small. Any CB Crank I have ever seen being used in an engine has been spot on. I've seen a lot of EMPI's cranks, and they all were right on the money as well. Don't get discouraged, your crank may have just slipped through quality control. Even though lots of people don't like the China Cranks, they are good cranks. Like you said, it's not his fault, but I'm sure Tim will do what ever is needed to make it right.

i can back that what Odyknuck says 100%. at work we get cups, cones, and rollers in from other plants around the world (brazil, india, CHINA, etc.) and a lot of them are shit and we have to fix them. we had roughly 300,000 cages from india that were junk that we had to fix. 3rd world countries (they're close enough to that) are exactly that, they should NOT be making precision parts if they are not properly skilled. that's my rant, haha.

hah jeff i will rant with ya. i should have been riding today....in a drivers seat haha. yea it is 0.001 off mistype.

hope to get a hold of tim tomorrow.

kyle